Vygotsky’s, Leontiev’s and Engeström’s Cultural-Historical (Activity) Theories: Overview, Clarifications and Implications

Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 56(4), С. 1091 - 1112

Опубликована: Июнь 10, 2022

At the social turn in education, Vygotsky's cultural-historical/sociocultural theory (VST) has become particularly influential. There are other cultural-historical traditions associated with VST, including Leontiev's and Engeström's versions of activity (CHAT). These approaches frequently conflated, resulting confusion that can be consequential interpreting educational research findings. Unravelling these frameworks is thus an important urgent task. In addressing this gap, paper first provides overview origins fundamental tenets perspectives, followed by a critical evaluation comparison among them. Implications for utilising discussed.

Язык: Английский

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The Relation Between Environment and Psychological Development: Unpacking Vygotsky’s Influential Concept of Perezhivanie

Human Arenas, Год журнала: 2022, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Окт. 17, 2022

Abstract In recent decades, Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory (VST) has become particularly influential in the fields of education and educational psychology. Perezhivanie is an important concept VST that stipulates a relative influence environment on person’s psychological development depending their age or stage development. However, perezhivanie been differentially interpreted applied previous literature to suit purposes domain-specific research. The lack comprehensive theoretical understanding can undermine research findings implications for practices. Drawing content analysis key texts , this paper provides much-needed discussion unpacks comprehensively methodological principles guiding its application. revealed conceptually, be defined as: (a) relation between individual environment, (b) abstract experience attitude towards life situation (c) concrete lived event within situation. Four major discernible components individual’s include environmental factor, personal characteristics mobilised, refraction prism influences. Five were conceived assist employment educational/psychological research: (1) utilising as unit analysis, (2) analysing at different levels, (3) accounting perspective involved, (4) constructing (5) determining mobilised . Implications practices are then discussed.

Язык: Английский

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Perezhivanie-Agency Dialectic: Examining Vietnamese EFL Educators’ Experiences and Negotiation of Dramatic Classroom Events

System, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 123, С. 103347 - 103347

Опубликована: Май 20, 2024

Tensions and conflicts are common in teachers' everyday professional lives, yet research on how these experiences influence pedagogical decisions teacher agency remains limited. This study employs a broad sociocultural perspective, integrating cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) Vygotsky's concept of perezhivanie, to examine two Vietnamese English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) educators responded agentively emotionally charged events. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews reflective journals, analyzed using qualitative content analysis. The findings the illustrate that mismatches between educators' expectations students' behaviours not only underpin negative emotions cognitive responses but also catalyze cycle reflection, which subsequently leads modifications teaching practices strengthens agency. underscores complex interplay dramatic events their agency, highlighting importance equipping with necessary knowledge skills constructively manage difficult enhance problem-solving capabilities. exemplifies critical integration development Integrative Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (iCHAT), synergistically combines elements CHAT providing robust framework investigate range phenomena beyond diverse educational cultural contexts.

Язык: Английский

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“There’s a Sense of Pride”: The Multilingual Children's Library as Perezhivanie

Public Library Quarterly, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 1 - 24

Опубликована: Янв. 3, 2025

Many libraries serve multilingual communities, however, research around remains sparse. This study provides a theorized understanding of how library is experienced by stakeholders, drawing on interviews and focus groups, event evaluations, field observations. Findings highlight communities value the metaphorical space, via physical space allocated to stock events, with borrowing influenced complex rationales. The troubles traditional notions success within science, necessitating reconceptualization stock, events in library, aligning belonging ownership that represents.

Язык: Английский

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Perezhivanie and Multilingual Adolescents’ Development of School Belonging in Northern Ireland

Journal of Language Identity & Education, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 1 - 15

Опубликована: Фев. 19, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Fostering language student teachers’ transformative agency for embracing GenAI: A formative intervention

Teaching and Teacher Education, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 159, С. 104980 - 104980

Опубликована: Март 12, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Teacher cognition in teaching intercultural communicative competence: A qualitative study on preservice Chinese language teachers in Hong Kong SAR, China

Frontiers in Psychology, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 13

Опубликована: Июль 28, 2022

The purpose of this study is to examine preservice Chinese language teachers' cognition in teaching intercultural communicative competence. In the we collected data through in-depth interviews with seven teachers a Master Education program (Teaching as Second Language, TCSL) at university Hong Kong SAR, China. findings indicated that participants had relatively positive attitude and inclination toward development students' competence, while their conceptualizations culture tended be static ambiguous. addition, participants' objectives competence were found more attitude-than knowledge- or skill-oriented. offers valuable insights plays crucial role future professional calls for curricular innovations aims teacher education programs.

Язык: Английский

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The Research Trend of Big Data in Education and the Impact of Teacher Psychology on Educational Development During COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Future Perspective

Frontiers in Psychology, Год журнала: 2021, Номер 12

Опубликована: Окт. 27, 2021

The COVID-19 outbreak, along with post-pandemic impact has prompted Internet Plus education to re-examine numerous facets of technology-oriented academic research, particularly Educational Big Data (EBD). However, the unexpected transition from face-to-face offline online lessons urged teachers introduce educational technology into teaching practice, which had an overwhelming on teachers' professional and personal lives. aim this present work is fathom research foci construct EBD in a comprehensive manner how positive psychological indicators function technostress suffered by less agentic teachers. To end, CiteSpace 5.7 VOSviewer were applied examine longitudinal study literature Web Science Core Collection objective uncovering explicit patterns knowledge structures scientific network maps. Thousand seven hundred eight articles concerned data that met criteria extracted analyzed. Research spanning 15 years was conducted reveal base accumulated dramatically after many governments' initiatives since 2012 accelerating annual growth decreasing geographic imbalance. review also identified some influential authors journals whose effects will continue have future implications. several topical such as mining, student performance, learning environment psychology, analytics, application. More specifically, shift mining application privacy general scan specific investigation. Among conclusions, results highlighted important integration psychology during critical periods development.

Язык: Английский

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Emotion and its relation to cognition from Vygotsky’s perspective

European Journal of Psychology of Education, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 38(2), С. 865 - 880

Опубликована: Июнь 8, 2022

Abstract Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory (VST) has been increasingly utilised as an effective framework to account for the role of emotions in learning and development. Yet, within VST, emotion neither systemically theorised nor investigated. This paper contributes literature by offering a theoretical discussion perspective on its relation cognition. Employing content analysis approach, three key texts were closely read analysed with emerging themes grouped into system interrelated tenets. The insights gained from this benefit scholars who are interested understanding researching VST well provide important implications educational practices.

Язык: Английский

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From active learners to knowledge contributors: authentic assessment as a catalyst for students' epistemic agency

Teaching in Higher Education, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown, С. 1 - 21

Опубликована: Март 25, 2024

This study examines how authentic assessment could nurture students' epistemic agency: their sense of agency in using, evaluating and producing knowledge. Authentic commonly emphasises 'realism' 'employability skills'. As important as these ideas are, this approach to neglects the key academic value knowledge, a gap we address by adding epistemology into conversation. Our qualitative case explores an archaeology course whose design relied heavily on digital technologies. We empirically analyse after articulating affordances course's design. findings show that digitally-mediated promoted relationship with knowledge three ways. Students understood themselves (i) active learners, (ii) users (iii) agents who contributed public archaeological reframe catalyst for agency, enabling students contribute social good.

Язык: Английский

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